THREE eyesore flat blocks in Clydebank will finally be torn down this year.
Demolition work at Brunswick, Montreal, and Quebec Houses in Mountblow is reportedly set to begin around January 6, 2025.
Nearby residents claim they received a letter from West Dunbartonshire Council (WDC), which owns the properties, stating that they will be flattened over the course of around 40 weeks.
An official time scale has however not yet been confirmed by the council.
In 2021, tenants said they wanted to be rehoused and for the buildings to be razed to the ground.
The rehoming process was eventually completed in November 2023.
Now, utilities at the site – including external lighting - are said to have been disconnected in preparation for the work.
A WDC spokesperson said: “The rehoming of tenants was completed in winter 2023.
"Preparatory work in advance of the demolition at this site is progressing well. Work to disconnect the utilities will be completed in December and demolition is due to start early in the new year.
“We will continue to update neighbours as the work progresses.”
However, this did not happen.
It is understood that once the properties are torn down, surveys on the land will be carried out to determine the best future uses of the site.
The decision to flatten the buildings came in 2021 when tenants overwhelmingly voted (86 per cent) in favour of it.
At a meeting of WDC’s housing and communities committee in November of the same year it was agreed that the flats would be declared surplus to requirements.
All tenants were rehomed and received home loss and disturbance payments.
A consultation run at the time found that 64 per cent of residents wanted the site to be used for new builds while 22 per cent felt the site should be marketed for private developments.
Over the past few years, many of the windows have been boarded up with the flats themselves fenced off.
